hot spring
noun
: a spring whose water issues at a temperature higher than that of its surroundings
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The camp also has six hot spring pools of varying degrees of heat (cool to piping hot) nested amid the rainforest. 
Dana Givens, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2022 The sleek spa has five hot pools filled with geothermal water from Europe's mightiest hot spring, Deildartunguhver. Katie Lockhart, CNN, 26 July 2022 Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, officials said Thursday. CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022 The Abyss Pool, in the southern area of the national park in Wyoming, is a 53-foot-deep hot spring, one of the deepest at Yellowstone. Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022 The building sits up a small flight of stairs from Baden-Baden’s old town, right on top of a thermal hot spring. Brian Blickenstaff, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2012 The woman followed the dog into the hot spring to save it and her father pulled her out. Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021 For a 40-mile trip over Christmas, my friends and I used a remote hot spring to sous-vide this 10 lbs elk round. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Jan. 2016 Even a hot spring in a cave, Reza’s nearly metaphysical hideaway for consolation and contemplation, must become a hideout for concocting cold-blooded machinations. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 June 2022 See More
Dana Givens, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2022 The sleek spa has five hot pools filled with geothermal water from Europe's mightiest hot spring, Deildartunguhver. Katie Lockhart, CNN, 26 July 2022 Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after a park employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, officials said Thursday. CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022 The Abyss Pool, in the southern area of the national park in Wyoming, is a 53-foot-deep hot spring, one of the deepest at Yellowstone. Doha Madani, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022 The building sits up a small flight of stairs from Baden-Baden’s old town, right on top of a thermal hot spring. Brian Blickenstaff, Outside Online, 10 Dec. 2012 The woman followed the dog into the hot spring to save it and her father pulled her out. Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021 For a 40-mile trip over Christmas, my friends and I used a remote hot spring to sous-vide this 10 lbs elk round. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 18 Jan. 2016 Even a hot spring in a cave, Reza’s nearly metaphysical hideaway for consolation and contemplation, must become a hideout for concocting cold-blooded machinations. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1572, in the meaning defined above
hot springs
noun
as in headsprings
Synonyms & Similar Words
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- headsprings
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- fountains
- geysers
- sources
- headwaters
- wellsprings
- fountainheads
- headstreams
- tributaries
- branches
- feeders
- heads